Leslie Cagan just called from the station and asked me to circulate
these updates:

Democracy Now was just rebroadcast at 5pm in full - uncensored.

Besides the return of Wake Up Call tomorrow at 6 am (a special
extended Martin Luther King birthday special til noon, with Democracy
Now! from 9 to 10 am), Kathy Davis and I will return as cohosts of
"Health Action" tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. While change is happening
at the station, it may still take a while to get every pre-12/22/00
program back on the air.

Leslie closed with these thoughts, "The transition at WBAI is well
underway. We appreciate the continued patience of the station's
listeners. In the coming days, you'll hear more of the old familiar
voices. Stay tuned."

Bob Lederer

P.S. Reminder: You can listen to WBAI on line at www.2600.com (go to
bottom of home page) or www.wbai.org (ditto). [and of course the links page at
this site - www.wbai.net]

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Earlier post from John Riley, based on quotes from Bernard White, follows.

Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:16:25 -0500
From: John Riley
Subject: First of Pacifica Radio's Fired and Banned Staff to Return
to Work at New York's WBAI on Martin Luther King's Birthday.

Following more than a year of struggle that included civil
disobedience and demonstrations of hundreds of people, fired radio
hosts Bernard White and Amy Goodman will return to the air at 6am
on Martin Luther King's birthday. White was the first of 37 WBAI's
staffers to be fired, banned, suspended or driven out of WBAI,
following the December 22, 2000 'Christmas Coup.' Amy Goodman was
fired from Wake Up Call, one of the most popular local WBAI shows,
in March. Goodman and her "Democracy Now" staff were suspended from
national broadcast on the network in August.

"Wake Up Call will be broadcast tomorrow morning", said Bernard
White, newly rehired WBAI program director. "The letters are just
being tacked up now. We've been meeting with the staff this
afternoon regarding the change over, and it has gone over fairly
smoothly, with some predictable pockets of resistance. We're going
to move forward according to the wishes of the listeners, who
rejected the old order and brought about the new." Amy Goodman will
return to the air as White as co-host on Wake Up Call. The rest of
the fired and banned will be returned to the air as soon as White
meets with a staffer to layout the new schedule. Today, January 14,
"Democracy Now!" was broadcast on all five stations at its regular
times, although in New York the first 10 minutes were pre-empted.